It’s being called the biggest baseball trade since Babe Ruth went to the New York Yankees. The surprise is that Los Angeles didn’t get the Bambino in the deal.

Sure, he has been dead 64 years. As far as we can tell, so has Carl Crawford. And the Dodgers will pay him $102.5 million for imitating a corpse.

Why not sign Ruth? That would at least make a public-relations splash, which is what the Dodgers are really after.

They want to build a Must-See TV team, and no amount of money, scouting reports or common sense is going to stand in their way.

That became stunningly clear over the weekend in the nine-player trade with Boston. The Red Sox got a bunch of prospects and new lease on life. The Dodgers got Crawford, Josh Beckett, Adrian Gonzalez and the bill for the Big Dig.

That’s Boston’s $14 billion road project disaster. But what’s a few billion between friends? And right now, every team should want to chum up with the Dodgers.

Got a lemon outfielder you want to get rid of? Call Magic Johnson or one of the other LA co-owners.

Need to unload that fake Da Vinci painting that cost you $142 million? The Dodgers wouldn’t care if Leonardo just had Tommy John surgery and couldn’t lift a brush.

The new owners believe $100 bills are going to grow on the palm trees at Dodger Stadium. The temptation is to say a fool and his money are soon parted. We can’t say that yet because the Big Splash strategy always works in the short run.

The 84-year-old radio legend is so pumped he decided to return next season.

“They want to win, and they want to win now,” he said. “So I’d like to hold on with both hands and see just how far they take this ballclub.”

The Guggenheim group paid $2.15 billion for the team in March, $1 billion more than any U.S sports franchise had gone for. That seemed crazy, but it’s all part of a grand plan.

A new regional TV contract is coming. It’s expected to pay $3 billion to $5 billion over 20 years.

TV shows need star power to get noticed, especially in LA. So Magic & Co. have added about $420 million in salary since acquiring the team. Apparently nobody remembers Magic’s track record with TV shows.

“We understand you have to spend money to be good in this league,” he said.

It takes money to make money. But to be good long term, you need to spend it wisely, or at least not like drunken oil sheiks. Boston just happened to be in the right saloon at the right time.

The Red Sox wanted to get rid of bloated contracts and start rebuilding. The Dodgers wanted big names and big talent. Gonzalez was a prime target to appeal to the Latino fan base.

Beckett has always had great stuff. He’s also a self-centered jerk who opened the beer-and-wings franchise in the Boston clubhouse. The Red Sox were glad to get rid of his attitude, his bad back and his 5-11 record.